8 Nov
2002
8 Nov
'02
9:46 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:13:45PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
Darn! I wish we had some way to collect all this
information about
noise, low latency and other system configuration issues somewhere.
Finding what works and what doesn't from searching mailing list
archives is difficult and frustrating.
I could set up a wiki with almost no effort.
Would that do the trick?
I started a wiki to replace the ancient Audio Quality HOWTO
a long time ago, but I wasn't really happy with the wiki
way of doing things so i abandoned it, thinking "I'll make this
better later"... but, well, you know how later goes. :-\
you can browse and search it (but not add stuff) at:
http://www.slinkp.com/LiLAQ/FrontPage
I'm imagining some sort of web database of system
hardware and
software configurations with some indication of associated latency,
reliability, and noise levels. It would be interesting to look for
patterns in the data.
a wiki wouldn't be as smooth as what you're describing
but it would at least provide a way that users could add comments
on various hardware. could have a page for each soundcard,
a page for each video card, etc. Adding pages is easy.
If a wiki would not do, let's figure out the requirements
and i could maybe throw something else together.
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
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